Inside Zaha Hadid’s East London apartment

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In architect Zaha Hadid’s universe, a constant flow of ideas shapes her fluid approach to design – as seen in her London apartment

As Zaha Hadid, the world’s most acclaimed woman architect, sits down at a table under the four-pane skylight of her East London apartment, a shaft of sunlight splits the grey, rain-heavy sky and illuminates the white space around her. The resultant natural spotlight is something with which this notable designer is clearly both comfortable and familiar.

Hadid, 57, is renowned for the “impossible” shapes of her buildings, for the sweeping organic forms and trapezoidal lines that make them appear truly futuristic. The list of her projects, awards and accolades is almost too long to digest, but a heavily edited version